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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2285, 2 September 1908, Page 3

A general meeting of the Gisborne Defence Cadets will bo hold in t]ie Drillslied on Monday next, at 7.00 p.m., for tbo purpose of electing a second lieutenant. Every member must attend. There are possibilities of a beefsteak tragedy afflicting Woodvillo (writes the “Dominion's” Wairarapa correspondent). The facts which ' are alleged to be the cause of this threatened calamity are that the Woodvillo railway stiff, numbering sixty members, formed a co-operative cash purchase association. Traders were asked to put ill tenders for supplies, with the result that the Association is now purchasing at liberal concessions compared with previous prices. The price of meat, for instance, went down from 25 to 50 per cent., according to the cuts. Therein lies the trouble which is threatening, for the families of the staff have been making a dead run on rump steak at 4=1(1 per pound for the past week. The general price of this commodity is 7d or 8d per pound, and the butcher who lias been favored with the contract complains that if the run on rump steak continues much longer he will have seriously to consider his position. He has made repeated applications to the families of the staff asking them t-o refr.iin temporarily from including such an expensive item as rump steak m their cuisine, but so far his entreaties have been unsuccessful. The situation is provocative of much amusement in Woodville. Meanwhile families are waxing fat at the agonised expense of the butcher,